I had developed an avid interest in Oscar. Wilde during my time in the theatre and thus began collecting rare Wilde books and recording his amusing quotations.The re-appraising imagination that informs Wilde's plays shapes itself most constantly around the idea of the feminine, which includes the way both men and. Gwendolen Fairfax, Cecily Cardew, Mrs. 85 Letter to Thomas Wemyss Reid, in Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde.